Data collection and privacy

The dizzying advances and the ubiquitous nature of communications and computers, and the astounding increases in the amount of data produced and collected in the world, have fundamentally changed the meaning of what constitutes an expectation of privacy. To live a meaningful life in the twenty first century almost requires an individual to operate in ways which leave a distinct digital trail. Even in the most underdeveloped countries, the cell phone is largely the primary means of communication.

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ETNSI considers the recent evolution of new technologies of warfare and intelligence gathering and the ethical, legal, and policy implications of their employment. Participants include military, intelligence, and academic experts with widely varying specializations including ethics, international law, national security studies, and peace studies.

ETNSI members reserching privacy issues:

Marina Blanton

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Research interests: Information security, privacy and applied cryptography, and in particular topics such as secure computation and outsourcing, private biometric and genomic computation, integrity of outsourced computation and storage, and privacy-preserving systems for medical and social networks